20100430 - Poland

Release Date: April 30 - 2010
Postal Authority:  Poczta Polska
Title: World Philatelic Exhibition "Portugal 2010"
Format: Block with 1 Stamp
Dimensions (mm): 90 x 70
Designer: Jacek Konarzewski
Printing Process: Offset
Quantity issued: 300000


Stamp:

Facial: 3 zl (Zloty)

Dimensions (mm): 31,25 x 43

Lighthouse: Torre de Belém (Portugal).

Among the different utilities given to this tower thru his 500 years of existence, be a lighthouse was one of them. It happened between the years 1847 and 1940.

Recomended Links:

Belem Tower general information:

http://www.mosteirojeronimos.pt/web_torre_belem/frameset.html

Fantastic PostCard of the lighthouse from Klaus Hülse:

http://www.leuchtturm-welt.net/HTML/PGPK/ORIGINAL/T_BELEM.JPG

Thanks to Jaap for the alert of this emission.